Manufacturing Today Issue - 235 Apr 2025 | Page 101

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DC Norris
“ Additionally, our on-site Product Development Kitchen, equipped with our advanced cooking and cooling equipment, provides customers with the opportunity to conduct comprehensive trials. We prepare sample products, demonstrating the efficiency and quality achievable with our machinery. Backed by decades of expertise, our process team has a proven track record of helping clients globally optimize their food production. With over 5000 product trials conducted across 62 locations worldwide, our team excels in replicating, and often improving, throughput, product quality and consistency. After the trial, clients can take the product for further testing as needed.
“ It is also worth noting that we house our own electrical, control panel, assembly, and software departments, offering installation, commissioning, training, spare parts and servicing to all our clients,” he enlightens.
Quality and consistency
In honor of its technological prowess, DC Norris won the Innovative Processing System award at the 2024 Automate UK Awards. Ian reflects on this achievement, shedding light on how the company ranked ahead of its competitors.“ Our Cook Quench Chill Adapt machine was the main reason we won that award. It was conceived during the pandemic when travel was highly restricted, leading us to spend most of our time analyzing client feedback on our existing machines. Our goal was to develop an improved system that would be more efficient, utilize green energy, and reduce both energy and water consumption. We developed the award-winning Cook Quench Chill Adapt, designed for cooking foods like pasta, rice, pulses and vegetables. While it embraces the same concept as our other cooking devices, the Cook Quench Chill Adapt uses a

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